I have just posted this thread on Twitter: The Bank of England’s going to increase interest rates today. It may be by 0.25%. It could
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The recipe for an economic disaster exists, chosen by idiots possessed of a dogma in pursuit of destruction
The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders has reported that: June new car registrations fell 24.3% to 140,958 units – the weakest performance for the
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The economics of the government’s pay disputes don’t stack
This is my second Twitter thread of the morning (and no, for the record, I could not sleep): The government wants a summer of pay
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There is a magic money tree right at the heart of the UK government, mandated by law and in operation since 1866, at least
This paper was published last week: The paper has the following abstract: This paper constitutes a first detailed institutional analysis of the UK Government’s expenditure,
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New money is part of the solution to our problems
My Finance for the Future colleague, Colin Hines, has this letter in the FT today: Dear Sir, Your editorial (Ministers should be clear: there are
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Sunak’s bailout package was a massive bung to the energy sector that will not stop inflation, but will increase inequality
I tweeted this thread this morning: As I made clear yesterday, the package of measures introduced yesterday by Chancellor Rishi Sunak failed to address the
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Public sector debt paranoia at this moment in time is no excuse for the government imposing private poverty on the UK’s population
As the Guardian has noted: Consumer confidence in the UK has fallen to the lowest level since records began in 1974 amid growing concern over the
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Inflation will go away – because it always does – and in the meantime here’s how to deal with it
One of the arguments that Danny Blanchflower and I are making in our two person opposition to the prevailing establishment thinking on inflation is that
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